Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

G forces themselves produce a restriction. On a starting line leave that produces close to 2 Gs every foot of fuel line running horizontally from front to rear will knock .3 psi off of your fuel pressure. Just 8 ft of line is a loss of 2.4 psi and most fuel pressure gauges are highly dampened and yo...

All too many people ( consumers ) do not understand that China got on the higher technology band wagon by steeling it from the west. The Chinese Tangshan factory was still making steam locomotives in 1989 for Gods sake, yes 1989!! By then since it was a well dying technology in most other parts of t...

White plugs and clear signs of detonation will do that.

I would check the rod bearings now.

Are your Exh temperatures rising once the motor hits 5600

Some things to keep in mind. Expansion and contractions in the intake tract will cause the power band to narrow up even if the tract is mostly dead straight . Now add some bends to that and things get even worse because high speed air no less air ladened with fuel will not make it around a bend of m...

And what is your little brothers wallet like?

The trans will need be on the least rebuilt, but also beefed up .

If valve stems and guides can’t be fired up for the first time and live on oil which will be what they have to live on for there usage life time, then something is wrong .

On a side note here, and I know it’s out of your price range for this type of racing unless you find a used one, but your center main ware issue is from needing a 8 counter weight crank due to your hp and rpm level stuffed in a factory block.

X2 with the above.
I have always used a 30w oil for assembly until Mobil1 came around.
Never a problem either way if the clearance is good.

I would possibly have doubts about the block,
8K with that stroke!

What we now call junk I would have been thrilled to have in my car fifty some odd years ago.

How big of a item do you need to do this?

It does tuck under a bit along the rear so just go slow as you pry and wiggle and pull it out towards the front. I used clear bath tube sealer when I put it back on and the second time I had to remove it, boy was it a battle! It actually pulled up some of the wood. If I had to do such again I don’t ...

When I had my 110 I had to get that plate off twice. I used a xacto knife along the front until I could get a small blade straight tip screw driver under it and the pried it up to get a bigger blade screwdriver under it and then just worked around the front lifting and prying more and more with each...

So finally a set up like a steam locomotive where power is applied for both extremes of motion.